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15corpses2023-05-10 04:41 pm
strangerpeople) wrote in 15corpses2023-05-10 04:41 pm
at once short of life, and long of sorrow.
[You are dead.
Well, obviously. You remember how you died. It was...not fun, to say the least. But hey, at least you're off that ship, right?
Except...you don't know exactly where you are now. It seems like a house, but if it is, it's...a work in progress. Most of the rooms are empty, and your steps echo up through the marble columns and down faint mosaics on the tiled floor. The few windows you find have a green light gleaming through them; you can't really see anything beyond the eerie light.
It feels like you're in a temple of some kind. The columns and mosaics seem to indicate it is something like that-it's certainly reminiscent of something out of an ancient culture, perhaps even one you're familiar with. For some reason, though, it's clear someone-or something-lives here. One of the rooms to the south is stuffed with pizza boxes. Another, larger room has a makeshift futon in one of the corners. There are imprints of multiple footsteps all through the dusty floors as you look around, many of them leading to a small alcove to the west. And-
and there's a giant van. Just. hanging out there. Completely out of place with the seemingly ancient decor. And inside, there is the sound of light snoring.
Ok then. You're apparently not alone in death, after all.]
((OoC: Map for reference.))
Well, obviously. You remember how you died. It was...not fun, to say the least. But hey, at least you're off that ship, right?
Except...you don't know exactly where you are now. It seems like a house, but if it is, it's...a work in progress. Most of the rooms are empty, and your steps echo up through the marble columns and down faint mosaics on the tiled floor. The few windows you find have a green light gleaming through them; you can't really see anything beyond the eerie light.
It feels like you're in a temple of some kind. The columns and mosaics seem to indicate it is something like that-it's certainly reminiscent of something out of an ancient culture, perhaps even one you're familiar with. For some reason, though, it's clear someone-or something-lives here. One of the rooms to the south is stuffed with pizza boxes. Another, larger room has a makeshift futon in one of the corners. There are imprints of multiple footsteps all through the dusty floors as you look around, many of them leading to a small alcove to the west. And-
and there's a giant van. Just. hanging out there. Completely out of place with the seemingly ancient decor. And inside, there is the sound of light snoring.
Ok then. You're apparently not alone in death, after all.]
((OoC: Map for reference.))
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[ A chuckle. ]
Who's that? A friend of yours?
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[...Well then. To the other name he was thinking of.]
Still, I believe I might know who this prince is - would he be, by any chance...Zagreus?
[believed to have eventually been subsumed into the worship of Dionysus, but humans were fallable beings. And who's to say that in this version of the greek underworld, that he happened to be the son of Persephone and Hades instead of the son of Persephone and Zeus?]
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[ It rolls over and sinks to the ground, a little mound of fleece like some grounded cloud, the white wool even covering its snout. ]
I wasn't supposed to tell you that....
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He'll come over to give the sheep a bit of a pat.]
There there - I merely guessed, is all. I've quite a bit of knowledge about the Greek Pantheon, you see.
[Don't worry, little sheepy. You didn't do anything but confirm his suspicions!]
Then I assume he is the son of the master of this place, and his wife?
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Yeah... Zagreus, the prince, he's the son of the master and the Queen. He's always going out into the Underworld and dying! He even got it to be his job!
And... and he always shows up the moment he does die! But I don't see him this time!
[ Big, golden eyes peer up through the cottony down at Moriarty, full of worry. ]
We've got to find him! What if he got lost somewhere?
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He continues to pet the sheepy, because well. he's cute. Maybe even give a scritch or two.]
Then perhaps he is still on the side with the living?
[He's...not even sure how that'd work, but well. Not like there isn't stranger things that have happened, honestly?]
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No no, he's here! I know he's here! He died again! He's just... he's not here!
[ It wriggles in place. ]
If you see Zag before me, just let him know I was thinkin' of him, okay? And tell him he shouldn't hesitate about killing mortals to save himself! They're all gonna be down here anyway!
[ The sheep makes to bound through the air, off towards another section of the hall. ]